AILSA CHANG, HOST: House Democrats won an important victory in court today. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered the Justice Department to turn over secret material leftover from the Russia investigation led by former special counsel Robe...
Where There's A Wine, There's A Way AILSA CHANG, HOST: New Trump administration tariffs are threatening to drive up prices for a wide variety of gourmet foods from Europe, including Italian cheeses, Spanish olive oil and French wine. But a Florida co...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The new movie Black And Blue is an action thriller about a woman who tries to straddle a divide between two groups of people - African Americans and the police who are supposed to be protecting them. The New Orleans police officer...
NOEL KING, HOST: One of the key people involved in the impeachment inquiry is Rick Perry, the U.S. secretary of energy. It was Perry who urged President Trump to make that July phone call to Ukraine's president. In that call, Trump asked the Ukrainia...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Republicans are growing louder in their support of President Trump. About two dozen GOP lawmakers disrupted the testimony of a top Pentagon official on Wednesday. They were protesting the House impeachment inquiry by crashing a se...
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NOEL KING, HOST: When you hear a big idea from a presidential candidate, you often want to ask them, wait, how exactly would that work? We've been giving undecided voters a chance to sit down with candidates and go off script, asking them those quest...
NOEL KING, HOST: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying on Capitol Hill right now, and hes facing a tough audience. From disinformation and hate speech to its election content, his company is under pressure. Plus today hell need to give specifics...
MILES PARKS, HOST: This is NPR's LIFE KIT. I'm Miles Parks from the NPR Politics team. In this episode - how to vote. I want to start with a story for the people who say, my vote doesn't matter. Why bother? (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIF...
NOEL KING, HOST: There are a lot of superheroes and a lot of vigilantes crowding the pop culture landscape. But HBO's new series Watchmen, which was inspired by a DC comic, kind of stands out. DAMON LINDELOF: I think that Alan Moore, who is the brill...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: When Boys Don't Cry opened 20 years ago, it introduced moviegoers to a transgender hero, a character that simply was not represented on-screen at the time. The independent film became a box-office hit, and it earned its star, Hilar...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: After more than 50 years writing some of the world's most acclaimed espionage novels - some of the world's most acclaimed novels - John Le Carre has accomplished something truly extraordinary - he's made badminton seem fascinating....
A Push To Have Cars Say 'No' To Drunk Drivers AILSA CHANG, HOST: Technology that would prevent you from driving if you have had too much to drink could become mandatory in all new cars. That is if legislation now in Congress becomes law. NPR's Vaness...
MADDIE SOFIA, HOST: You're listening to SHORT WAVE from NPR. OK, nerds, time for a thought experiment. Say you're trying to throw a pool party tomorrow, but your pool is missing kind of a key ingredient - water. RANDALL MUNROE: If you can't get water...
NOEL KING, HOST: All right, it's October, and that means it is flu season. Federal health officials are urging, like they do every year, that we all get the flu vaccine as soon as possible. Here's NPR's Patti Neighmond. PATTI NEIGHMOND, BYLINE: Make...
